Frank Perconte
Technician Fourth Grade Frank J. Perconte was a noncommissioned officer during World War II with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division in the United States Army. He was portrayed by James Madio in the HBOBBC miniseries Band of Brothers.
Perconte was born and raised in Joliet, Illinois. His parents were Joseph Perconte, who died in 1929, and Mary Carbone. He was raised Catholic and attended parochial schools. He graduated Joliet Central High School in 1935. During the Great Depression, he and some of his friends moved to Gary, Indiana and worked in a steel mill. He enlisted on August 17, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois with childhood friend Herman Hanson. Perconte and Hanson, along with Wayne Sisk and Carwood Lipton, were the first four soldiers assigned to Easy Company
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